Hoover Abani Samuel

Hoover Abani Samuel

Mr. Abani Hoover Samuel, the Managing Partner, former Acting Managing Partner of Hesse and Hesse law firm was born at Begoro in Ghana and after his initial secondary school education at Prempeh College, Kumasi, obtained a scholarship to study in Austria where he attended the Bundeserziehungsanstahlt (BEA) at Saalfelden in the Salzburg District and the English International School in Vienna. Mr. Abani Hoover Samuel studied Economics for two years at the famous Vienna Economics University (Wirtschaftuniversität, Wien) before moving to England to read law. After obtaining his LLB Honours degree at the University of London as an external student, he obtained a Master’s degree at the London School of Economics specialising in Law of the Sea, Law of International Institutions, Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights. He was called to the English Bar in July 1988 and to the Ghana Bar some twenty years later in 2008.

Mr. Abani Hoover Samuel, in addition to practising in England, was lecturing on the University of Liverpool’s LLB (Hons) degree at the University of Liverpool’s affiliated law school in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

He has written extensively in the areas of Contract law, law of Evidence, Constitutional law and Public International Law.

He is considered at the Accra Bar as a top advocate and has been involved in Standard Bank Offshore Trust (Jersey) v National Investment Bank, involving US$60 million of promissory notes issued by National Investment Bank; Daniel Ofori v Ecobank and Others involving the Stock Exchange sale of 14,120,000 CAL Bank shares; Afari Apeadu Donkor v EDC Stockbrokers and another involving 18 million shares; Ecobank v Aluminium Enterprise Limited involving two loans of US$3.3 million and US$250,000; Ecobank v Skod Timber Limited involving a loan of US$1.5 million and Industrial Park Limited v National Investment Bank, involving US$2,400,000.

He has advised mining companies such as Wyoming Mining Inc., U.S.A., a number of telecommunications companies and oil and petroleum companies. He has acted for a number of the major banks in Ghana including Ecobank (Ghana) Limited, Amalgamated Bank (now Bank of Africa), SG-SSB and HFC Bank. His international clients include Air Namibia, Fugro Airborne Surveys Ltd, a number of foreign governments and international sea carriage underwriting companies. In addition to English and his native tongue, Twi, he speaks fluent German.

His international clients include Tech Mahindra (the 5th largest company in India operating in most parts of the world in the field of IT and other technology), Infobip International (a mobile phone company operating in Croatia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana), Bharat Marines Company, India (a respectable size Asian shipping company).